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...There was the highly fragrant Rosa rugosa “Roseraie de L’Haÿ” and wine-coloured species peonies, their flowers like tea bowls....
...But he regularly returned to his birthplace and his beloved motifs: the dry, rugged landscape, the fishing village of l’Estaque and the Mont Sainte-Victoire....
...It’s a light-filled neoclassical treasure — all faded hues of pistachio and Pompeiian red, dusty wooden cabinets and painted friezes....
...heart of Paris, from the outside this looks like a messy, dusty alterations shop, but don’t be fooled....
...Meanwhile, a pair of Arizona Shearlings lined with lamb’s wool sell for €150 in Germany, while a pair of dusty blue synthetic Barbados sandals for the beach will set you back a mere €45....
...At the close of July, when I can stand it no longer, I climb into my car and head north from my home in Extremadura, traversing the dusty plains of Castile and the bleak mountains of León before arriving...
...L’Oréal Hapta, price still to be set RM The pocket laptop This dinky 7in mini-laptop is fully modular, upgradable, repairable and ultimately recyclable....
...I spent dusty days in archives, and scoured auction catalogues for unpublished letters — one, from a childhood friend, gives the earliest known eyewitness description of Monet: in the 1850s, roaming the...
...Child did live in Paris in the 1950s, but on rue de l’Université in the 7th arrondissement, nowhere near Porte des Lilas....
...One would assume that some things must surpass all metrics with their expertise and beauty, and yet even the most revered of artists can languish, dusty and unloved....
...This year’s big crowd-pleaser, in the airy Palais de l’Archevêché, is a retrospective of the great American colourist Saul Leiter....
...Solvers can expect to see shortened forms of political parties and groupings crop up regularly — L and LIB for Liberal, LAB for Labour, R and REP for Republican (and sometimes GOP), D and DEM for Democrat...
...This is one criticism you’ll hear, and I want to read just briefly from Peter L Bernstein’s 1996 investing classic, Against the Gods. He writes here, gives this little fictional story....
...“I just love red beers,” he told me, as the last of his brew shone a dusty gold....
...The French have a term for it: l’appel du vide, or “the call of the void” — impulses that are central to my neuroscience research....
...There is social chronicle here: Arsène Houssaye, editor of the Paris magazine L’Artiste, argued that Second Empire women “emancipated themselves, knew the power of money, used it to the hilt . . ....
...Recalling his visits to Degas’s disheveled, dusty studio, the poet Paul Valéry mused in the 1930s that “the labour of the artist is of a very old-fashioned kind, the artist himself a survival, a craftsman...
...A typical French town may have a dusty caviste, as wine retailers are known in France, and a supermarket with no shortage of bottles from the country’s biggest producers....
...We picked bold colours for the walls: arsenic green, dusty lilac and bright blue....
...At the very end of the valley, high on a hill, long after the tarmac road had given way to dusty farm track, we saw what we had come for: the Naqshbandi Sufi shrine of the Timurid scholar-poet Sheikh Mohammed...
...Beyond the house, I gazed down on the dusty tracks of the Circus Maximus, where up to 150,000 spectators came on race days in the hope of some serious chariot pile-ups....
...On sunny days, which are most days, the city shines across the water like a dusty crown....
...Those dusty Motor Vehicle Licences are a reminder of trips taken as a child in the back of our Triumph Toledo to the same Lake District house that William Long built, part of which is still in our family...
...It’s funny to think how unfashionable wine bars were only a few years ago – outdated and dusty, synonymous with warm red, tired food and cringey clientele....
...Dusty, smoky nose but a real undertow of spicy fruit....
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